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filthy rich 
1. Fig. very wealthy. I wouldn't mind being filthy rich. There are too many filthy rich people now.
2. Fig. people who are very wealthy. The filthy rich can afford that kind of thing, but I can't. I sort of feel sorry for the filthy rich.
See also: filthy, rich

stinking rich

Fig. very rich. I'd like to be stinking rich for the rest of my life. Tiffany is stinking rich, and she acts like it.
See also: rich

stinking with something

Fig. having lots of something. Mr. Wilson is just stinking with cash. Those guys are stinking with jewelry.
filthy/stinking rich  (informal)
extremely rich Most of us are stinking rich compared to the average citizen in the Third World. Palm Beach has the highest concentration of filthy rich folk in the world.
See also: filthy, rich
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There is something stinkingly hypocritical and patronising in such manifestations of wealth and plenty in a land that is stricken by poverty.
Flaunting riches amidst poverty by Birmingham Mail (England)
But now that Alexander is six foot underground and Plato isn't faring much better, does the "cradle of civilisation" still have plenty left to offer away from sun, sea and stinkingly strong ouzo?
The food of the Gods; World cuisine Greece is the word at the city's ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
We're in the process of putting it up for adoption with a group of well-meaning and stinkingly rich Americans.
City's missing accounts: Is their number up? Game On Sky Blue A ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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